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A ‘Modern United Nations’. This is how high school pupils in de Dutch province of Zeeland will celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the United Nations. They will be prepared in speech writing, negotiating and debating by the University College...

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In het kader van de landelijke en jaarlijks terugkerende Black Achievement Month organiseren verschillende Walcherse partners een stadswandeling door de Middelburgse binnenstad met aandacht voor het slavernijverleden.

Tijdens een 2...

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Twaalf Zeeuwen met Afrikaanse roots in beeld. Dit bijzondere fotoproject is ook het Zeeuwse startmoment van de Black Achievement

Month 2020. De opening vindt plaats op zaterdag 3 oktober 2020 om 16.15 uur in de ZB, Kousteensedijk 7...

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In oktober 2020 vindt de tweede editie van de Black Achievement Month (BAM) in Zeeland plaats. Een maand lang is er opnieuw bij diverse Zeeuwse culturele en maatschappelijke organisaties ruimte voor personen van kleur en de rijkdom...

We received the sad news of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday 18 September. During her career and since her appointment in 1993 as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States she was a strong and prominent advocate of...

North Sea Port and a number of cultural organisations are joining forces to put a lot of culture onto various stages in the coming years. An international character and being active on both sides of the Dutch-Belgian border is what unites North...

In the run up to the 2021 Four Freedoms Awards, UCR in Middelburg organizes a special ‘Freedom theme program’. New students, for instance, will learn all about the Four Freedoms Awards and the Roosevelts during their introduction week. The...

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Han Polman, Commissaris van de Koning in Zeeland en voorzitter van de Roosevelt Foundation, hoopt dat het boekje Vrij mensen ‘inspireert helpt om in hun leven en werk inhoud te geven aan de vier vrijheden’. Dat zegt hij in...

It is with great concern that the Roosevelt Foundation learned about the conviction of Four Freedoms Awards Laureate 2020 Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. by a regional trial court in Manila on June 15th 2020. 

With Maria Ressa the Roosevelt...

Lieve Smeets (22), a Maastricht University student, is the winner of the Vrijheidscolleges’ and Roosevelt Foundation’s column competition. Her column was selected from among 115 entries. The assignment was to write a column about one of the...

A special About Freedom film will premiere on May 5, 2020 at 11 a.m.: a freedom conversation between Jan Terlouw and Leila Prnjavorac with 8 students from 4 MBO programs. This exceptional 'kitchen table conversation' was completely recorded for...

Dutch television program Het Klokhuis informs children aged nine to twelve about the world around them, in every sense of the word. In the month of freedom, they broadcast a mini-serie about the four freedoms.

In the series 'The 4 Freedoms',...

Like so many events the 2020 Four Freedoms Awards ceremony on April 14th in Middelburg had to be postponed due to the Corona-virus pandemic. 

All around the world people are faced with the great challenge of this pandemic. Millions of people are...

Sadly, the Four Freedoms Meet Up will not take place this year. This is why the University College Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and the Roosevelt Foundation have decided to offer digital guest lectures as an...

The presentation of the Four Freedoms Awards that was to take place in Middelburg next month will be postponed due to the corona virus. The chairman of the Roosevelt Foundation, King’s Commissioner Han Polman, announced this on Wednesday 18...

The laureates for 2020 were announced exactly one week ago.Sander de Kramer, who receives the award for Freedom from Want, spoke about his award and work during talkshow Op1.You can see this via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6UY8fzzqJs. (Dutch...

Zeeland, Mr. Han Polman, announced the names of the 2020 Four Freedoms Awards Laureates.

• The International Four Freedoms Award goes to the United Nations;
• The award for the Freedom of Speech and Expression goes to the to the Philippine...